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Martin is the man, anybody who doubts him now will be looking very foolish in a few years when he turns this mens basketball program around. I think our student section should be called the Martin Maniacs.

I don't mind calling players out, and I don't mind cussing at players, I think there is a right way to do both. Coach K and Jim Boeheim and Izzo and Dean Smith all do/did this to some degree. They have all showed compassion too. But to me, there is a difference in how they do it and how Frank does it. I can't pinpoint it exactly, but he seems to come off a little more bullyish and seems to do it way too often to have a positive effect. I think he is alienating guys a bit and needs to reign it in. It's fine to yell and scream, but he's drifting over the line lately. Our guys play pretty hard from what I've seen, maybe I'm wrong though.

When you sign on to play for a team, and are expected to give 110%, your ass belongs to the coach. Plain and simple.

You can't handle it? Can't perform? Can't be a winner? Quit. Winners have thick skin. Winners do what it takes to shut up their critics.

A coach gets paid to provide results. Just like my boss gets paid to provide results, and it's my job to make my boss look good. It's a player's job to make his coach look good. If I fail to do so, i'm out of a job. If a player can't make his coach look good, he shouldn't be on the team.

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Originally Posted by SanAntonioCock

This guy is embarrassing our university. It is the easy way to curse and scream and yell. Find another way to get your message to these players.

Do you also think they should all get medals for just showing up to practice?

Williams said something that sparked Martin's rage, that is hardly the sign of players who are scared. They lacked on court discipline when Martin came in and he is trying to get them to play his game. Sometimes you need an iron fist. He shouldn't launch into personal assaults on players, as that demotivates, but with a lot of these guys they think they know better than the coach and he is showing who was boss. Here's the bottom line, when a coach is shouting during a time out you keep your mouth shut. When he asks you a question you answer.

Guy is a walking cardiac event in progress. That tape sounds like he has lost all mental control. Hope he takes care of himself, there have been more than a few coaches who blew a gasket and ended up with health issues

Wouldn't play or allow my son/daughter to play for a coach so out of control he screams expletives at them.

Sure, I know it's common...doesn't make it any less reprehensible. I miss the John Wooden mentality

Would you drop F-bombs on your child? if you would, you're a piece of garbage. If you wouldn't, why would you allow someone else to.

I wouldn't drop f bombs on my child. But an 18 year old? And 18 year old getting a scholarship and half assing it on the court? Who doesn't listen to you? I suppose the fact that they use such language at 'kids' the same age in boot camp is as reprehensible?

It may not be your cup of tea, but it is effective. It is used in college sports, and has been for years. Maybe not by Wooden, but my Dean Smith, Coach K and countless others.

Would you drop F-bombs on your child? if you would, you're a piece of garbage. If you wouldn't, why would you allow someone else to.

If my son is 19-21 years old and doing something that I've warned him not to do, for his own good, and then he ignored me and did it anyway, I would drop a few F-bombs on him, sure.

However, I don't think screwing up in a basketball game is quite the same. Frank needs to wait for a player to show signs of not caring or slacking off before yelling like this. I really don't think Brenton was doing either, just made a few mistakes. Also, I wouldn't do it in a public place, or in front of a camera. Obviously, Big Frank doesn't give a banana about that apple.

been my kid frank would have had to worry about more than winning a basketball game more like removing my foot from his bum, that's something a lot of people are failing to realize he is talking to college students not professionals, im all for passion but he has crossed the line. I have played for some tough coaches but none have never talked to me that way... too far in my eyes.

Guy is a walking cardiac event in progress. That tape sounds like he has lost all mental control. Hope he takes care of himself, there have been more than a few coaches who blew a gasket and ended up with health issues